Activity #418: Document Examples of Bad Parenting

Years ago, a reader named Lynnette gave us the idea to start a collection of photos using baby as a prop to demonstrate all the What Not To Dos. I took mental photographs for this collection whenever I found my second child is asleep in her Pack and Play, swaddled tightly, but surrounded by loose extra blankets, burp cloths and a stuffed animal or two. We never would have allowed such lax safety measures with our first baby.

Lynette explains:

One of the keys of surviving as a rookie mom is to have a sense of humor about the whole motherhood experience. My husband and I often relax after dinner with a glass of wine, and find that our daughter is mesmerized by wine glasses. My husband, a wanna-be wino, likes to swirl the wine above her head, talking to her about the color, and then offer her the glass to smell the “nose” of the wine. She has recently started reaching for the wine glass with glee, and we just had to document it because it looks so darn funny. (Don’t worry, she hasn’t had a taste of wine yet!)

If you have any photos that fit this category, add #rookiemoms to the tags when you share so we can all enjoy your bad parenting.

Jillian of HelloSplendid shared this photo of her baby son browsing the Victoria’s Secret catalog.

i did a big and bad thin as a mom, i was using the internet and my 2 1/2 daughter was playing in the door way when all of a suden the little boy she was playing with yelled stop little girl. i looked up and my daughter was running out side and so close to the road. thank god i caught her in time NOW thats bad parenting and i feel very bad for it.

This is hilarious! I know I have some pics to take. We often let my 2 year old sit behind a parked car and pretend he is driving (I will agree with Heather, yes, I felt like Britney), and I have done the Pack and Play with the blankets and stuffed animals. It is great to be able to laugh at it once and a while.